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To: Dayuhan who wrote (5964)	2/15/2001 11:30:17 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

My own belief is that violent opposition to government is acceptable only when no peaceful form of redress exists, meaning in a dictatorship or a foreign occupation. Okay. You think we should still be speaking English, since we were not under a dictatorship in the 1770s, nor under foreign occupation (we were part of the country.) The South had no right to secede. (Or, in that case, was the North wrong in attacking, since the South had seceded and the North was invading? Not sure how that one would play out.) Apartheid should still be the law of the land in South Africa. Etc. I think there are times where while theoretical peaceful redress exists, pragmatically it doesn't. There are some who would say that situation is coming closer and closer in the U.S., where special interests dominate the government and the voice of moneyless peaceful redress is unhearable. Not here yet, but may come. Political change is messy; the powers that be ALWAYS accuse the rebels of being mobs, but sometimes armed rebellion is the only way to achieve freedom. And if it is, only an armed population can achieve that freedom.

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